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Digital bookseller Kobo is reportedly working on a 10-inch Android tablet with better specs than Apple’s iPad. The so-called Kobo Arc 10 HD tablet apparently recently showed up at the GLBenchmarks website and while the results were subsequently removed, both AndroidOS.in and Eeevolution managed to grab screenshots.

Starting in October, Kobo devices and e-books will be on offer at independent bookshops through a new deal with the American Booksellers Association (ABA), according to a statement from the Toronto-based e-bookseller this morning.

In January, a deal between the ABA and Google books that was intended to give independent booksellers purchase in the growing e-book market is set to expire, leaving the stores without a way to sell e-books. According to Google and independent booksellers, the program wasn’t much of a success for most of its nearly 400 participants.

From PaidContent: Toronto-based ebook retailer Kobo has signed a deal with the American Booksellers Association to let independent bookstores sell its ebooks through their websites, replacing the ABA’s deal with Google, which was set to end in January. Editor’s note: The following is a press release that was distributed today by the American Booksellers Association. KOBO AND [...]

That’s what the CBC is reporting. Canadian-based e-book seller Kobo is following in Amazon’s footsteps and creating a publishing arm that will deal directly with authors, CBC News has learned. Kobo, whose major shareholder is Indigo Books, will roll out its program sometime next year, according to CEO Michael Serbinis. Like Amazon, which announced two [...]

As American publishers gathered in New York this week to promote the best of what's coming in the year ahead, more and more attention was focused on the growing influence of digital publishing.

Companies at this week's BookExpo America agreed that while the book publishing industry is losing money overall, the increasing sales of e-books and e-readers are offering investors a chance to bet on the winners and losers in the future of publishing where print books may become obsolete.